Minitest-chef-handler gem not installing properly on windows

[trekr5]

Hello,

I'm trying to install the minitest-chef-handler gem on a windows 8.1 machine (running Ruby 2.0.0) and have the following errors:-

C:\git\GG.Infra.UserManager>gem install minitest-chef-handler
Fetching: minitest-4.7.5.gem (100%)
Successfully installed minitest-4.7.5
Fetching: ci_reporter-1.9.3.gem (100%)
Successfully installed ci_reporter-1.9.3
Fetching: minitest-chef-handler-1.0.3.gem (100%)
Successfully installed minitest-chef-handler-1.0.3
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing minitest-chef-handler:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

C:/opscode/chefdk/embedded/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb

creating Makefile
/c/Users/aebirim/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.0.0/gems/libyajl2-1.2.0/ext/libyajl2
extconf.rb:104:in makemakefiles': unhandled exception from extconf.rb:138:in

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Gem files will remain installed in c:/Users/aebirim/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.0.0/gems/libyajl2-1.2.0 for inspection.
Results logged to c:/Users/aebirim/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.0.0/gems/libyajl2-1.2.0/ext/libyajl2/gem_make.out

I'm running the following Chef gems:-
chef (11.14.0.rc.2 x86-mingw32, 11.12.8 x86-mingw32)
chefspec (4.0.1)

Also when I attempt to do a require 'minitest-chef-handler' within irb, (require minitest-chef-handler gem) I receive the following error:-

C:\git\GG.Infra.UserManager>irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'minitest-chef-handler'
LoadError: cannot load such file -- chef
from C:/opscode/chefdk/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:135:in require' from C:/opscode/chefdk/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:135:inrescue in require'
from C:/opscode/chefdk/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:144:in require' from c:/Users/aebirim/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.0.0/gems/minitest-chef-handler-1.0.3/lib/minitest-chef-handler/resources.rb:1:in<top (required)>'
from C:/opscode/chefdk/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:73:in require' from C:/opscode/chefdk/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:73:inrequire'
from c:/Users/aebirim/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.0.0/gems/minitest-chef-handler-1.0.3/lib/minitest-chef-handler.rb:3:in <top (required)>' from C:/opscode/chefdk/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:135:inrequire'
from C:/opscode/chefdk/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:135:in rescue in require' from C:/opscode/chefdk/embedded/lib/ruby/2.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:144:inrequire'
from (irb):1
from C:/opscode/chefdk/embedded/bin/irb:12:in `

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Can someone please tell me how I can solve this problem?

[lamont-granquist]

this looks like a cygwin path:

/c/Users/aebirim/.chefdk/gem/ruby/2.0.0/gems/libyajl2-1.2.0/ext/libyajl2

the whole chef ecosystem doesn't support cygwin very well and we don't support it. if you can't figure it out on your own, its best to not use it. chefdk itself is mingw based and not cygwin and you're probably crossing the streams.